the army shifts south. a dramatic point in the war because up to this point whatever general had been defeated retreated but grant moves south. there is brutal fighting in places in places such as the mule shoe and bloody angle. it goes on for almost 10-days and frant realizes he can't break through there. so grant maneuvers again. he pulls out and sends a finger of it out an a looping march hoping to entice lee to come out so he can pounce on him. that doesn't work. there is a race to the north of the river about 25 miles north of richmond and the confederate forces take up position. decpwrant able to get a finger of his army across. lee throws his army in a wedge formation with the tip touching the north bank. he realizes by doing this each wing thoffswedge on high ground. a very defenseable position. the union army comes across and it's split. part of the union forces on this side, part on that side. lee relses at that point he could strike either half of this divided army with his force and have parody

half of them enlisted or entered the army o army or had to enlisn 1861. another 30% entered in each and 62 and most of them entered before the confederate conscription law went into effect. so these are largely volunteers. about 37% of them are married. the original msd's committee teen 61 are overwhelmingly single but by 1862 they began until you get to the married soldiers that would go in. they are pretty wealthy as far as soldiers are concerned as well as compared to the southerners in general. a really high percentage are either slaveholders or their families and that they lived with their families so about 38% are in a situation in 44% live in the sleeve holding households cost of slavery is a powerful force with regards to these individuals. they are quite wealthy, the median income is above what we would consider middle class. it's solidly in the whole class based at the upper end of the middle class, so they are pretty wealthy and what to do. most of them the majority of them are farmers. a fair number of professionals, some white collar folks an

with the army. >> the letters? >> yeah, we had this great set of documents that is really pretty new. the civil war armies are the first literate armies in world history. they're almost the only ones who could read and write. 100 years prior in europe, the armies were filled with illiterate people. as wellington famously said, the men are the scum of the earth. in the civil war, most of the men could read and write. they had a lot of time to sit and reflect on what was keeping them in the army and write about it. and they wrote a lot. millions and millions of letter. we're still finding them 150 years later. so we have a window into what is making them willing to stay with the army. probably add a caveat here, not everybody does stay with the army. certain soldiers decide at various moments that the suffering and the misery of camp is not justified, and they make a run for it. there are even soldiers who -- union soldiers who desert. particularly the confessor he confederacyrly the near the end of t

he is risking his entire army. oft overlooks the basic fact what -- you can't get across the potomac overnight. it is a hole in my theory of lee should have done. it would have been very difficult to pull off. >> grant is my man. grant most all my life. i remember back at the university, they had a visitor and they were discussing the war and this visitor said to general lee, he was a horrible general -- i can understand how can't understand and he looked at him and said, "if i was such a great general, why did general grant defeat me? " he was an enigma. why did grant succeed? we don't know why, but he is the successor. everdon't believe that happened. he did not believe that he had been defeated by grant. he believed he was treated by superior resources. he was prideful as anybody in that position would be. he had respect for grant, but i shink he would argue that hi army was worn down. the same way felt about lee. he had respect for lee, but he -- wee had out generaled need to think about grant as a mastermind o

in fact, that army was the primary target of an army with serious problems of its own. the army of the potomac, which today could be a fine reality show, at least in terms of its officer corps, its dysfunctionality -- i do not know who kim kardashian would play in this army, but someone would. one. governor -- warren. it was a dysfunctional and defeatist officer corps at many points in the war in its command element. its soldiers may not have felt the same way. but if the army of the potomac had ever fought the confederates as well as they fought each other, we would not be having a 1964 conference today. 1864 conference today. it seems that in virginia the army of the potomac always found a way to use -- to lose. up until 1864, the biggest victory in virginia was a battle it had never fought, mine run. had not assaulted lee in december of 1863 in an assault that would have been a catastrophe in the minds of general war in -- warren and some other people. just like entering empty cities was the fantasy of george mcclellan beforehand. militarily, virginia poses a major p

to fight the iraqi army. we have seen a private soldier's story, we've seen a nurse's soldier's story. this right here is one of the soldier's story of a collection we have on general fred franks. one interesting aspect of his career a very wide and expansive career in the army, commanding troops at every single level as you can see at four stars is that we have his prosthetic leg. he comes back to visit us routinely, and of course we have his leg for him to see. but it's an interesting piece because he lost his leg in cambodia during vietnam. and he was able to continue with his career with that prosthetic leg. again moving up through the ranks and becoming one of the most influential generals in the united states history. we move into a peace time army post cold war, after desert storm and desert shield and through, we did have conflicts in places like bosnia. but as we move through you can see we get to finally the war on terror. we are currently collecting materials from current, soldiers who are currentl

the armies were approaching the river. [indiscernible] so began a game of flank and fight and flank and fight again. kept pushing. the armies were approaching the river. [indiscernible] richmond, itself. bloodied hosts gravitated toward a place of cold harbor. soldiers found it more -- than cold. cold harbor was a little more than a dusty intersection of two country roads. as a maid turned into june it was obvious to both sides that the scrimmages were reaching a point of a full scale battle. grant's resolve was as strong as ever. however, his opponent was not in good health. people looking throughout the last two years that the war had taken a heavy toll on robert e lee, then 57. he has suffered already in the war a broken hand a sprained wrist, rheumatism, in the previous year, a massive heart attack for which there was no treatment or cure or medication. these sapped lee's strength. lee was not a top traveler. he was in a civilian carriage. he did not have the strength to ride a horse. nevertheless, lee's soldiers were

one of their armies? finigan other principal one voskhod army of tennessee, mississippi and to those were the principal armies for the confederacy. >> host: what to read a lot of the aria of further and virginia? >> soldiers came from every confederate state regiments from each state the soldiers half enlisted will they had to come another 30% interest in 62 most was before the law went into effect so the larger the volunteers. about 37% were married. the original in this d's were overwhelming leasing qdoba 1862 they dig deeper into the barrel soon have more very to soldiers so they're pretty wealthy as compared to seven years in general. of a high percentage of slaveholders and live with their families. so that 38%, 44 percent in live-in slave holding households of that was of course, with individuals. to be quite wealthy the medium -- the median income is at the upper end so they are pretty wealthy and fell to do a majority are farmers and of fair number of professionals and a surprisingly not as many a

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and the guerilla army of. the islamic state of iraq. other irregular forces in the field are rushing to isil's side, and this force is moving from victory to victory. 11 years after united states headed to war, you will be hearing the names again, a marry, that filled the nightly news in the months and years of that long war. after americans gave so much, their lives and countless billions of dollars, those same cities are again battlegrounds as a sunni army rolled over the u.s. trained and equipped iraqi national army, and heads toward baghdad. going too need more help from us and the international community. my team is working around the clock, to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to that. i don't reel out anything, because we we do have a stake in making sure that these jihaddists are not getting a permanence foothold in either iraq, orser yeah for that matter. >> the situation on the ground appears to have outpaced the government. fighters have gotten much more of a foothold as events broiled thursday. heavil

. >> an army disbanded by the united states. does the united states have to remain engaged in iraq in order to vindicate the expenditure and loss of life that we have experienced there over the last decade? do we have to stay there because we were there before? >> no, shas absolutely wrong. that's some costs. basically, what we have to do is maintain our credibility, and it's based on not only the people we lost and how long we were there, but the relationships that we built with so many people in iraq, who rely on us and trust us, because there are so many other people in the world with similar relationships, who rehaven't spent frills of dollars, and thousands to help. but they look at what's happening in iraq and ukraine, and we don't know who is reliable. aside from the important strategic issues directly related to iraq. >> well, the united states is getting ready to send more weapons to iraq, and are weapons what that army really needs? >> i think that the degree needs to be more if it's used in the right way. the security

owned wagonse army in the army. those start to come about during eriod, but are really not a standing force until the 20th century. >> thank you. >> sir? >> this is a question about the ending years of the cavalry, if i may. my father was stationed at fort and 40's. lots's you know,cle patrols, training patrols, for reconnaissance, i suppose and messengers. would you discuss the transition from four/two mechanical -- horseflesh to mechanical? before the ward and he missed the philippines. apparently they ate their horses on the way to baton. he would have been in that. is theer thing motorcycle element at fort riley, there is a bit of americana there. i have never been able to trace this. the word is, there are a lot of guys, motorcycle cavalry at the end of world war ii, they ended up hitting california, and there that runen rumors across that they formed a club called the hells angels there. is that a myth? >> there is a little bit of truth in everything. that mechanization transition is another volume of books, b

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the original iraqi army after the us invasion and that's the root of the problem the u.s. war in iraq cost washington close to one trillion dollars and the lives of more than forty five hundred soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis have reportedly been killed while the u.s. was looking for w m d's and spreading democracy. the unified and competent iraqi military that was allegedly a stablished has buckled weapons that were made in the usa are now in the hands of america's enemies and the country left to fend for itself in a state of crisis arena portnoy r.t. . this week's business news is coming up next with katie colby malvo. be back with more we'll be speaking. to gen x. c.j. next vulgarize ation of darwin science and punishment for an uncommitted crying i was never the least to learn from believing in eighty feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why not a lot but i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology don't stop at just sterilizing yet again and now go to the point of death she did for years and

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the mardy army commands tens of thousands, volunteering to help the iraqi army stop sunni rebels advance on baghdad. imran khan was in sadda city and sent this update. >> reporter: clearly this is a show of strength. what they want to say is they are ready to defend baghdad. these are designed to be peace platoons, not designed to go on the offensive. look around you. i'm surrounded by heavily armed men. these images will worrisome people and remind them of the mardy army and the days of sectarian violence in 2006, 2007 and 2008. this is not the mardy army, this is a peace platt on designed to protect baghdad. >> let's take a closer look at the key armed shia groups in iraq. the mardy army was one of the leading groups against u.s. and british forces during the war, with an estimated 500,000 fighters, fighting in 2008, disbanded in 2009, but now reformed. the league of the righteous is a sattarist splinter group sent to have 10,000 fighters. men fighting in support of the syrian government. a key supporters of the government, hezbollah, the iraqi branch, is believed to have 40,000. the b

they're tracking the resistence army. most of its fighters were abducted as children and were forced to kill their friends and relatives and brutalize them. they have become experts in living and hiding in the bush. >> it's not easy to find them. sometimes they can confuse us. >> the climate here is hot and humid, and the jungle stretches on for hundreds of kilometers scatter. they are scattered in an area the size of france and it is difficult for them to fine them. the leader joseph kony is thought to be hundreds of kilometers here in an area where the ugandan forces don't operate. most of the lra are in the southeast and neighboring congo but they say joseph kony, who is wanted by the international criminal court, is hiding in an enclave in sudan. but the suda sudanese government deny hiding him. thousands of civilians have been killed by militia. the government here wants the ugandan army to stay. >> car is experiencing a political cries like never before in its history. fortunately they have come to secure my provinc

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the army says it's in control. that is refuted. it's difficult to hold the towns when you capture them because of the fact that i.s.i.l. and the sunni rebels are in control. they cut off the iraqis, from getting to baghdad. it's a problem for the iraqi army trying to come up with a strategy. we have seen a mass recruitment in the south. a lot are saying this the recruits are there to defend the south, moving it to the north means that there's a sectarian element to all of this. they don't want to be fighting in sunni territories. >> is the thinking in baghdad that the sunni rebels want to take the capital. >> i'm finding it difficult to hear your question. i think what you are asking me is what the thinking in baghdad is. right now everyone is in a mode of deciding what they'll do next the the americans are sending in advisors to advise the troops and the iranians are doing the same. everyone is a holding pattern trying to despite what the n best move is. >>> there has been a shoot-out between south korean troops and a shoulder who

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old army officers are fighting the new army officer and they proved the old army officer are more capable and more able to defeat than new i'm. they know the new army is corrupt, badly trained, inefficient, and they know this very well. >> ambassador an army disbanded by the united states. does the united states have to remain engaged in iraq in order to vindicate the expenditure and the loss of life that we experienced there over the last decade? do we have to stay there because we were there before? >> no. that's absolutely the wrong -- that's sunk costs. basically what we do have to do is, first of all, maintain our credibility. and our credibility is based not on how many people we lost or how long we were there. but on the kind of relationships we have built with so many people in iraq, who rely upon us and trust us. because there are people elsewhere in the world who have similar relationships with us who see us, who we haven't spent trillions of dollars and lost thousands of people to help defend but they look at us and look at what's happening in iraq or what's happening in ukrain

i say would have been because the army suppressed the film. the army did everything in its power to prevent its release and the movie was not shown publicly until 1981. john huston spent decades trying to get it shown. finally, thanks to the intervention of walter mondale. >> the censorship he faced, was that unusual for directors question mark >> -- was that unusual for directors? >> it was the only movie to be suppressed over a long-term. films for were making the army, these directors constantly battled restrictions, accusations from the war department that they were going off message, that they could not include footage of american bodies. they had to show soldiers as brave and confident. those fights- often resulted in changes. very rarely did they result in the movie being suppressed altogether. >> we will show the film, "the battle of san pietro." what can you tell us about this one? "> "the battle of san pietro was shocked by john huston -- shot by john huston in italy. frank capra told john huston to go to italy in search of a town th

bush dismantled the original iraqi army after the u.s. invasion and that's the root of the problem the u.s. war in iraq. cost washington close to one trillion dollars and the lives of more than forty five hundred soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis have reportedly been killed while the u.s. was looking for w m d's and spreading democracy. the unified and competent iraqi military that was allegedly established has buckled weapons that were made in the usa are now in the hands of america's enemies and the country left to fend for itself in a state of crisis. r.t. . the u.n. says more than a thousand civilians have been killed this month alone eight hundred thousand people be forced to flee their homes to escape the advancing the situation's no but if a troop see the icy spots that it's execute. in hundreds captured iraqi soldiers let's now take a look at why the army appears to be so powerless at the moment against the advancing islamist fighters firstly when the extremists seized mosul it opened up access to cash arms and ammunition a

the left the army. and a quick the south with a good cadre of professional cavalry officers to begin building southern calvary. among the troopers it was a much different story. the six regular units, you'd think the north would have an advantage because they had six regiments of very experienced long-termat have service on the american frontier. the union army, rather than spread the experience out among the newly formed volunteer regiments, they kept those six regiments in tact throughout the war. so, the regular enlisted cavalry troopers essentially stayed in a tiny little group of veterans and their experience was not shared with the hundreds of of recruits that came into the calvary during the war. this was typically commanded by colonel. any rain from major through colonel in command. majorsd by a couple of of lieutenant colonel and then the captains who commanded the calvary companies, today and we called cavalry units, calvary troops, that change occurred during the indian wars, during the ameri

sherman's army was probably one of the great armies of liberation. they are not willing to liberators. sherman was not, certainly not a fan of racial equality or according civil rights to african americans. he was perfectly content as they went on to plantations to have his men liberate the slaves and say they were free. he would always tell them to stay put. they needed to stay put because he did not want to know following after his army. he was unable from stopping african-americans from following. there were probably 25,000 african-americans who have followed his army. he does not want to go. he's perfectly willing and there's a section in his ordered to take able-bodied african-american men and have the work as teamsters. he did not want to have to feed women and children and elderly people. there is a horrific episode outside of savannah in a place called ebenezer creek where sherman's men, you have sherman's army or a section under the command of one of sherman's subordinates, jefferson davis, no relation. and then you have the african american

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the original iraqi army after the u.s. invasion and that's the root of the problem the u.s. war in iraq cost washington close to one trillion dollars and a lot. more than forty five hundred soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis have reportedly been killed while the u.s. was looking for w m d's and spreading democracy. the unified and competent iraqi military that was allegedly established has buckled weapons that were made in the usa are now in the hands of america's enemies and the country left to fend for itself in a state of crisis. are cheap now the u.n. says more than a thousand civilians have been killed this month alone and the ongoing violence has forced eight hundred thousand people to flee their homes to escape the advancing jihad as the situation is no batter for troops either isis boasts that it's executed around seven thousand five hundred captured iraqi soldiers hundreds of iraqis have responded to a call to arms to the fan their towns but the army still remains out flying to almost every turn and fighting

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on the fate of a country at stake iraq's army beaten back by a ruthless al qaida splinter group that's spreading through the country with a plan to seize baghdad and create a new as long as state. and later when we look at the week's top stories rival camps step up their campaigns with confidence in the piano's referendum now less than a hundred days away r.t. here's the hopes and fears from both sides. which are seen a national coming to life from moscow with miriam and josh russia's amberson ukraine has been vandalized by crowds of young people who threw stones and mobs of cocktails and drew nazi symbols on the walls and foreign minister turned up to siding with the riders and making some decidedly undiplomatic comments postcard has the details from. despite the fact there was no police presence to stop events unfolding on saturday which is in breach of the vienna convention incidentally which says that all embassies should be protected from attack by the host nation despite this lack of police presence one official did turn up that was ukraine's interim foreign minister he was there

on friday falls a terrible week for local civilians who lost over a dozen loved ones as a result of army shelling. god you know. that is what we would. do we. need to let. you know that you. know you could then you would not does the media let the detroit. go ahead where they're going to go you're going to go to hear. this and grow some food it was apparently shot in common tours and shows the aftermath of an artillery attack on tuesday tam people are believed to have been killed down as you can see buildings are full of bullet holes and body parts are scattered outside in a similar attack on the neighboring slovyansk a young mother and her five year old son were killed when a mortar shell landed in their backyard. so it's a good point so. that's what the judge did. but didn't let's see if. he slipped out really dealing with to be. used. the military crackdown in eastern ukraine has turned cities across the region into ghost towns tens of thousands of people have fled remaining residents are struggling to find food or medical supplies long queues for water empty shelves and grocery store

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in this army? >> guest: there are israeli-arabs who serve in the army. they are under no obligation to serve. there is only one non-jewish population in israel, the druze, who have volunteered to be drafted beginning in 1956. but there are great numbers of bedouins, israeli arabs, both muslims and christians who serve in the army, and circassians serve in the army. c-span: do you still, by the way, have an american citizenship? >> guest: i do. c-span: we're out of time. we got a lot more we could talk about but "six days of war" is the title of the book. our guest has been michael b. oren, who is both an american and an israeli citizen, and we thank you very much. >> guest: thank you, brian. ..

in overall terms the iraqi army is bigger than the insurgency. it has better weapons and potentially better training. what now needs to be done is marshalled in the right way, led in the right way to defeat the insurgency. the important thing is it's not going to happen overnight. it will take time. the longer it takes, the better it is. the last thing you want to do is go charging in, killing insurgents and causing grievances and problems. in some ways what the iraqi army and political leadership will have to do is have strategic patience and deal with it in an incremental way and take as long as it takes. there's every reason why she should stop the advance and take the region. >>> good to have your thought from the institute of defense and security from london. >>> egypt's president is refusing to bow to international pressure over the gaoling of three al jazeera journalists. abdul fatah al-sisi said there would be no interference with the judiciary despite the outcry over the conviction of mohamed fadel fahmy. after strong comments from the u

the is pressing need to defeat terrorism and back the army, he said, the army is strong. i think if the army is as strong as you say it is, there wouldn't be a need for the militias. the army was betrayed in mosul, he said, and so they need backup, iraq will not be broken. but iraq may have already started breaking up, jeff, and today there was more bad news for the military. an army helicopter was shot down by isis fighters. >> glor: so, clarissa, with the country splintering, what is the central government's strategy? >> reporter: well, that's just it, jeff, there doesn't really appear to be a strategy. and the only outside country that is throwing its weight behind the iraqi shiite- dominated government here is iran. iran has, in fact, sent the head of its quds paramilitary force along with the contingent of iranian fighters there here trying to help iraqi forces coordinate a response. >> glor: clarissa ward in baghdad tonight, thank you. we move now to holly williams in northern iraq where a power vacuum left by government forces is being filled by local militias. >>

army officials say bowe bergdahl was nervous when he arrived in the u.s. but he looked good and saluted his commanding officer when returned. he was held captive for five years, and has not seen his family still. >> overall we are pleased with his physical state. he was able to ambulate and walk into the hospital, and seemed to do so in a functional manner. we allowed him to get settled in to the hospital and his room, and his environment. and we are going to be planning more comprehensive testing and consultation, stuff not done during phase two. >>> brazil's weather is expected to be good for the world cup. but rain fall in one state flooded the world cup city. heavy machinery was used to help clear roads. 3,000 have been forced from their homes. three world cup matches will be held there. ghana and the united states on monday. how will the weather hold up in south america? steph has the answers, i hope. >> there has been flooding elsewhere in south america. let me show i pictures that i have got from a dam. that's where we'll start, on the riff, in the

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joining the army's fight in afghanistan. by may 2009, bergdahl and the rest of the company were in the rural province where they manned a small outpost. >> pretty much as soon as we had gone to afghanistan and things started to turn a little bit harder for all of us, he immediately started separating himself away from us. and everyone in the platoon and started gravitating more toward the afghan soldiers. >> personally, i thought he took an interest in the culture. and i didn't see any problem with it. >> one of bergdahl's closest friends was gerald sutton. >> every day, we would always eat together and we would always go outside and he would smoke his pipe and sometimes i would smoke with him, too. and we would just relax after work or after we were done with trucks. he wasn't a loner. >> they often talked about what they wanted to do with their lives after the army. bergdahl presented a strange plan. >> three days before he actually left, he asked me what it would be like to get lost in the mountains or do you think he cou